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title: "December 15, 2021 — Prophet Habakkuk | Church calendar"
description: "Wednesday, December 15, 2021. 2 December (Old Style). Prophet Habakkuk. Fast day"
url: "https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2021-12-15"
language: "en"
---

Wednesday

# December 15, 2021

2 December (Old Style) · 26th week after Pentecost

Russian Orthodox Church (Old Calendar)

[Old Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2021-12-15) [New Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2021-12-15)

[Month calendar](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2021-12)

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## Events of the day

- Prophet Habakkuk

  Commemoration

## Fasting

Fast day · Nativity Fast

Nativity Fast, Wednesday and Friday: xerophagy.

- Meat: not allowed
- Dairy & eggs: not allowed
- Fish: not allowed
- Oil: not allowed
- Wine: not allowed
- Xerophagy

Food rules are reference church information. Agree your personal measure of fasting with a priest; consult a doctor if you are ill.

## Readings of the day

- Epistle

  1 Timothy 1:18–20, 2:8–15

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  18 I commit this instruction to you, my child Timothy, according to the prophecies which were given to you before, that by them you may wage the good warfare,

  19 holding faith and a good conscience, which some having thrust away made a shipwreck concerning the faith,

  20 of whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I delivered to Satan, that they might be taught not to blaspheme.

  8 I desire therefore that the men in every place pray, lifting up holy hands without anger and doubting.

  9 In the same way, that women also adorn themselves in decent clothing, with modesty and propriety, not just with braided hair, gold, pearls, or expensive clothing,

  10 but with good works, which is appropriate for women professing godliness.

  11 Let a woman learn in quietness with full submission.

  12 But I don’t permit a woman to teach, nor to exercise authority over a man, but to be in quietness.

  13 For Adam was formed first, then Eve.

  14 Adam wasn’t deceived, but the woman, being deceived, has fallen into disobedience;

  15 but she will be saved through her childbearing, if they continue in faith, love, and sanctification with sobriety.

- Gospel

  Luke 20:1–8

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  1 On one of those days, as he was teaching the people in the temple and preaching the Good News, the priests and scribes came to him with the elders.

  2 They asked him, “Tell us: by what authority do you do these things? Or who is giving you this authority?”

  3 He answered them, “I also will ask you one question. Tell me:

  4 the baptism of John, was it from heaven, or from men?”

  5 They reasoned with themselves, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will say, ‘Why didn’t you believe him?’

  6 But if we say, ‘From men,’ all the people will stone us, for they are persuaded that John was a prophet.”

  7 They answered that they didn’t know where it was from.

  8 Jesus said to them, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.”

Source: Orthocal: lectionary data — Slavic tradition, Julian calendar. Text: World English Bible.

## Saints and icons

- Prayer of the day: [The Trisagion](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/prayers/trisagion)